Indie VR Hit ‘Gorilla Tag’ is the Most-rated Quest Game Ever, and Only Just Coming to the Main Store - Road to VR

Indie VR hit Gorilla Tag has been staggeringly fashionable contempt lone being disposable frankincense acold connected Quest’s App Lab. Now acceptable for merchandise connected the main Quest store connected December 15th, it volition motorboat arsenic the most-rated crippled connected the full store, adjacent surpassing Beat Saber, 1 of VR’s champion known apps.

App Lab is Meta’s ‘unlisted’ app store for Quest, which allows developers a mode onto the level but precludes them from being promoted oregon easy recovered done the main Quest store that astir customers see.

Still, we’ve seen apps find occurrence connected App Lab, and nary much truthful than Gorilla Tag, a elemental crippled of multiplayer tag with unsocial hand-based locomotion and charmingly low-fi visuals, which has succeeded successful uncovering an assemblage contempt not being disposable successful the main Quest store.

Having lone been on App Lab since March 2021, Gorilla Tag has already amassed 46,000 reviews; that’s much than immoderate different Quest app—even those connected the main store—including Beat Saber’s 45,000 reviews, which is possibly VR’s astir good known crippled to date. Compared to Beat Saber, Gorilla Tag of people has the vantage of being free, but the crippled besides has the astir reviews among escaped apps too—even those connected the main store—pulling up of the apical escaped app, Rec Room, which sits astatine 22,000 reviews.

And present the game is yet headed to the main Quest store, wherever it’s destined to lone go much popular. Developer Kerestell Smith has announced a Gorilla Tag merchandise day of December 15th connected the main Quest store. Gorilla Tag is besides disposable connected PC VR.

Smith began Gorilla Tag arsenic a one-man task nether the workplace sanction Another Axiom. With the game’s explosive popularity, Smith has grown the workplace to 15 people, according to Meta.

Gorilla Tag’s popularity isn’t lone measured successful reviews though; Smith said earlier this twelvemonth that the crippled had reached a staggering 4.5 cardinal players.

And wherever has the app recovered specified traction, contempt being ‘unlisted’ successful the Quest store? Smith tells Road to VR that TikTok has been a immense driver, with the hashtag #gorillatag seeing 4.4 cardinal views to date—purely organic, according to the developer.